I think it takes tremendous courage to say anything on the subject of abortion, even with caveats, even when presented in the most humane way possible. While I have said any number of controversial things in my journal, every time I have tried to write "the abortion post", the effort has ended up, well, abortive.

In very many ways, your views are similar to my own, but somewhere along the line, the debate over *why* abortion should be legal - the fundamental principles on which freedom of choice should stand - has been hijacked and it has become all about control and power. It makes it hard to talk about *anything* surrounding the subject, which is ridiculous given the importance of the topic. Sad, really.

Anyway, I wish you luck avoiding the flamewars that seem to arise out of this sort of thing.